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Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] use full-size cpumask for vcpu-pin

To: Ian Jackson <Ian.Jackson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [Patch] use full-size cpumask for vcpu-pin
From: Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2010 14:30:35 +0100
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On 13/08/2010 14:25, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On 13/08/2010 14:21, "Keir Fraser" <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>>> Since Xen discards any CPUs which are not online at the time of the
>>> setvcpuaffinity hypercall, expressing "all CPUs present and future" is a bit
>>> pointless.
>> 
>> Hm, no, I'm talking rubbish. Argh. Okay, his patch is fine then. :-D
>> 
>> You can check it in to xen-unstable-tools.hg.
> 
> One suggestion: that we rename the syctl.physinfo field 'max_phys_cpus' to
> 'max_possible_cpus'. The 'phys' is kind of redundant since this is the
> physinfo sysctl, and 'possible' provides a better hint that this fields
> indicates maximum possible supported CPUs now and forever on this boot of
> the system.

Even better, let's not introduce a new field at all, and let's always set
sysctl.phys_info.max_cpu_id to NR_CPUS-1. Then I don't think any tools
changes are needed.

Yeah, that's what we should do. I will make a patch for that.

 -- Keir

>  -- Keir
> 



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